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Bill Schenley
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BRANDY M. STEVENS-ROSINE
Photo: http://tinyurl.com/cufpwyu
FROM: The Youngstown (OH) Vindicator ~
(Paid obit)
CANFIELD
Friends may call Saturday afternoon from 1 to 3:45 p.m., followed by a
memorial service held at 4 p.m. at the Higgins-Reardon Funeral Home,
Boardman-Canfield Chapel for Brandy M. Stevens-Rosine, 20, who died
May 17, in Pennsylvania.
Brandy was born in Youngstown on Nov. 30, 1991.
She was a 2010 graduate of Boardman High School, she then enrolled in
Youngstown State University to study sociology. While a student at
Boardman, Brandy was a member of the orchestra, served on the staff of
the “Bugle,” the high school paper and was a member of the Italian and
Key clubs. Brandy loved music, writing and enjoyed reading. She
regularly attended literary meetings at the Boardman Library.
She will always be remembered as a kind hearted, easy going person
with many friends.
She is survived by her mother, Carrie Rosine and her companion, Kevin
Gold of Hubbard; grandparents, Richard and Kathy Stevens of Poland and
Cindee and Jerry Rosine of Boardman; a sister, Stephanie Rosine; three
stepsisters, Lexi, Haley and Kylie Gold; an aunt, Brenda (AJ) Barrett;
and nephews, Ethen and Dylan.
She was preceded in death by her father, Michael Rosine and great-
grandmothers, Joann Chirns and Ada Harris.
The family has requested that material tributes take the form of
donations to a memorial fund in her memory at Huntington Bank.
Professional arrangements are by the Higgins-Reardon Funeral Home,
Boardman-Canfield Chapel.
... And then ...
Lesbian lovers accused of killing a former girlfriend
Photos: http://tinyurl.com/cn4w6gk
(Ashley Barber)
http://tinyurl.com/ckw269w
(Jade Olmstead)
FROM: The San Diego Gay & Lesbian News ~
By Valerie Myers, Erie Times-News Staff Writer
MEADVILLE
Brandy M. Stevens, 20, was still alive but probably beyond feeling
pain when a woman she had loved helped to bury her.
Jade N. Olmstead, 18, and her new lover, Ashley M. Barber, told police
that they invited Stevens to their Cochranton-area home on May 17 and
then savagely beat and choked her and buried her in a grave they had
waiting, state police Trooper Eric Mallory testified during a
preliminary hearing for the two women Wednesday.
Both will stand trial on charges of homicide and conspiracy to commit
homicide, Vernon Township District Judge Michael Rossi ruled. Mallory
testified that Barber and Olmstead admitted to the killing and
described their relationship and their relationship to the victim in
separate interviews with police.
Olmstead greeted Stevens and lured her into the woods near the home
that she shared with Barber and Barber's parents in Wayne Township, to
see a crude fort that she and Ashley Barber were building. Barber was
hiding there. At the fort, the two women began punching and kicking
Stevens and stuffed a "Saw" cap into her mouth to stop her pleading
for her life and screaming.
"They said they were freaking out from her screams," Mallory said.
Stevens was knocked to the ground by the two women. Barber put a rope
around her neck and strangled her while Olmstead alternately hit her
in the head with a shovel and helped to choke her, Mallory said.
Barber also repeatedly pounded Stevens' head against a stump and told
police that a bruise on her own forehead came from head-butting
Stevens' besides.
"She was on the victim's back with her knee in her spine, pulling her
head back with the rope ... and letting it hit the stump," Mallory
said.
The two women rolled Stevens into a shallow grave that they had
prepared for her at the fort. When they saw that she was still
breathing, they threw a large rock onto her face and poured water into
her mouth and nose.
"She said that her worst fear was being buried alive," Mallory said of
Barber. "She was trying to kill her."
The results of an autopsy by Erie County forensic pathologist Eric Vey
showed that Stevens suffocated on dirt, police Trooper Phillip Shaffer
testified.
Barber and Olmstead originally told police that Stevens had come to
visit, then left her car there and walked up the road with her
belongings to meet a friend, Mallory said. Barber said that she'd
gotten the bruise on her head in a fall down the cellar stairs.
She later told police that her father had killed Stevens because
Stevens "looked like a boy" and her father wasn't very tolerant of
homosexuality, Mallory said. The women admitted killing Stevens after
police told them that they'd found her grave.
Barber and Olmstead will also stand trial on an evidence tampering
charge. The women burned some of the victim's belongings as well as
some of their own clothes that they bloodied during the killing,
Mallory said.
They buried the bloody rock, one of the women's blood-soaked Ohio
State University hoodie and the "Saw" cap with Stevens.
"The black hat was used to pick up what she (Ashley Barber) referred
to as meat or brains," Mallory said.
Stevens' grandmother, Kathy Stevens, sobbed during the graphic
descriptions of the killing. She earlier sobbed on the makeshift
witness stand in the Vernon Township Building meeting room. The
hearing was moved there, from Rossi's smaller courtroom, to
accommodate families and friends of the victim and the accused.
Kathy Stevens described seeing her granddaughter for the last time
when she left home on May 17. She reported her missing to Beaver
Township police on May 19 after her granddaughter didn't answer or
return any of her phone calls.
Cell phone records and a relative's tip shifted the search for the
young woman to the Cochranton area, and to Olmstead and Barber. Police
found Brandy Stevens' car in a driveway at the Barber home and an
unexplained stain nearby on Drake Hill Road and called for a cadaver
dog.
"You could smell a certain odor of decay at certain times, depending
on which way the wind was blowing," police Trooper John Michalak said.
Stevens, also known as Brandy Stevens-Rosine, was a student at
Youngstown State University, where she was studying sociology,
according to her obituary in the Youngstown Vindicator.
"She was a wonderful person," Tera Haines, of Boardman, Ohio, said.
"She was nine years younger than me but was like a mother to me. She
was very, very nice."
Haines was at Wednesday's preliminary hearing for Barber and Olmstead.
"I'm here for justice for my friend," Haines said.
Barber and Olmstead are being held at the Crawford County Correctional
Facility in Saegertown. Rossi on Wednesday denied a defense attorney's
request for bail for Barber.
Crawford County District Attorney Francis Schultz will decide whether
to seek the death penalty for the two women.
"That's something that I will decide before the arraignment," Schultz
said.
The women will be arraigned in Crawford County Court on Aug. 24.
Photo: http://tinyurl.com/cufpwyu
FROM: The Youngstown (OH) Vindicator ~
(Paid obit)
CANFIELD
Friends may call Saturday afternoon from 1 to 3:45 p.m., followed by a
memorial service held at 4 p.m. at the Higgins-Reardon Funeral Home,
Boardman-Canfield Chapel for Brandy M. Stevens-Rosine, 20, who died
May 17, in Pennsylvania.
Brandy was born in Youngstown on Nov. 30, 1991.
She was a 2010 graduate of Boardman High School, she then enrolled in
Youngstown State University to study sociology. While a student at
Boardman, Brandy was a member of the orchestra, served on the staff of
the “Bugle,” the high school paper and was a member of the Italian and
Key clubs. Brandy loved music, writing and enjoyed reading. She
regularly attended literary meetings at the Boardman Library.
She will always be remembered as a kind hearted, easy going person
with many friends.
She is survived by her mother, Carrie Rosine and her companion, Kevin
Gold of Hubbard; grandparents, Richard and Kathy Stevens of Poland and
Cindee and Jerry Rosine of Boardman; a sister, Stephanie Rosine; three
stepsisters, Lexi, Haley and Kylie Gold; an aunt, Brenda (AJ) Barrett;
and nephews, Ethen and Dylan.
She was preceded in death by her father, Michael Rosine and great-
grandmothers, Joann Chirns and Ada Harris.
The family has requested that material tributes take the form of
donations to a memorial fund in her memory at Huntington Bank.
Professional arrangements are by the Higgins-Reardon Funeral Home,
Boardman-Canfield Chapel.
... And then ...
Lesbian lovers accused of killing a former girlfriend
Photos: http://tinyurl.com/cn4w6gk
(Ashley Barber)
http://tinyurl.com/ckw269w
(Jade Olmstead)
FROM: The San Diego Gay & Lesbian News ~
By Valerie Myers, Erie Times-News Staff Writer
MEADVILLE
Brandy M. Stevens, 20, was still alive but probably beyond feeling
pain when a woman she had loved helped to bury her.
Jade N. Olmstead, 18, and her new lover, Ashley M. Barber, told police
that they invited Stevens to their Cochranton-area home on May 17 and
then savagely beat and choked her and buried her in a grave they had
waiting, state police Trooper Eric Mallory testified during a
preliminary hearing for the two women Wednesday.
Both will stand trial on charges of homicide and conspiracy to commit
homicide, Vernon Township District Judge Michael Rossi ruled. Mallory
testified that Barber and Olmstead admitted to the killing and
described their relationship and their relationship to the victim in
separate interviews with police.
Olmstead greeted Stevens and lured her into the woods near the home
that she shared with Barber and Barber's parents in Wayne Township, to
see a crude fort that she and Ashley Barber were building. Barber was
hiding there. At the fort, the two women began punching and kicking
Stevens and stuffed a "Saw" cap into her mouth to stop her pleading
for her life and screaming.
"They said they were freaking out from her screams," Mallory said.
Stevens was knocked to the ground by the two women. Barber put a rope
around her neck and strangled her while Olmstead alternately hit her
in the head with a shovel and helped to choke her, Mallory said.
Barber also repeatedly pounded Stevens' head against a stump and told
police that a bruise on her own forehead came from head-butting
Stevens' besides.
"She was on the victim's back with her knee in her spine, pulling her
head back with the rope ... and letting it hit the stump," Mallory
said.
The two women rolled Stevens into a shallow grave that they had
prepared for her at the fort. When they saw that she was still
breathing, they threw a large rock onto her face and poured water into
her mouth and nose.
"She said that her worst fear was being buried alive," Mallory said of
Barber. "She was trying to kill her."
The results of an autopsy by Erie County forensic pathologist Eric Vey
showed that Stevens suffocated on dirt, police Trooper Phillip Shaffer
testified.
Barber and Olmstead originally told police that Stevens had come to
visit, then left her car there and walked up the road with her
belongings to meet a friend, Mallory said. Barber said that she'd
gotten the bruise on her head in a fall down the cellar stairs.
She later told police that her father had killed Stevens because
Stevens "looked like a boy" and her father wasn't very tolerant of
homosexuality, Mallory said. The women admitted killing Stevens after
police told them that they'd found her grave.
Barber and Olmstead will also stand trial on an evidence tampering
charge. The women burned some of the victim's belongings as well as
some of their own clothes that they bloodied during the killing,
Mallory said.
They buried the bloody rock, one of the women's blood-soaked Ohio
State University hoodie and the "Saw" cap with Stevens.
"The black hat was used to pick up what she (Ashley Barber) referred
to as meat or brains," Mallory said.
Stevens' grandmother, Kathy Stevens, sobbed during the graphic
descriptions of the killing. She earlier sobbed on the makeshift
witness stand in the Vernon Township Building meeting room. The
hearing was moved there, from Rossi's smaller courtroom, to
accommodate families and friends of the victim and the accused.
Kathy Stevens described seeing her granddaughter for the last time
when she left home on May 17. She reported her missing to Beaver
Township police on May 19 after her granddaughter didn't answer or
return any of her phone calls.
Cell phone records and a relative's tip shifted the search for the
young woman to the Cochranton area, and to Olmstead and Barber. Police
found Brandy Stevens' car in a driveway at the Barber home and an
unexplained stain nearby on Drake Hill Road and called for a cadaver
dog.
"You could smell a certain odor of decay at certain times, depending
on which way the wind was blowing," police Trooper John Michalak said.
Stevens, also known as Brandy Stevens-Rosine, was a student at
Youngstown State University, where she was studying sociology,
according to her obituary in the Youngstown Vindicator.
"She was a wonderful person," Tera Haines, of Boardman, Ohio, said.
"She was nine years younger than me but was like a mother to me. She
was very, very nice."
Haines was at Wednesday's preliminary hearing for Barber and Olmstead.
"I'm here for justice for my friend," Haines said.
Barber and Olmstead are being held at the Crawford County Correctional
Facility in Saegertown. Rossi on Wednesday denied a defense attorney's
request for bail for Barber.
Crawford County District Attorney Francis Schultz will decide whether
to seek the death penalty for the two women.
"That's something that I will decide before the arraignment," Schultz
said.
The women will be arraigned in Crawford County Court on Aug. 24.
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